Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the U.S. and Israel do not have a “blank cheque” in their bombing campaign in Iran.
Ahead of a call with caucus members set for today, Anand says her diplomatic focus is on de-escalation and protecting civilians in the conflict that Washington launched last weekend.
Anand will take part in today’s phone call with Liberal MPs, some of whom have publicly expressed unease with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for the U.S. campaign and have argued it violates international law.
The minister says she welcomes a diversity of views but notes there have been two decades of talks aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Anand initially refused to say whether the American bombing campaign violated international law, but Carney later said that is likely the case.
Anand says “international law binds all parties and there is no blank cheque, in terms of the operation that is being undertaken.”
